"Plaintiff is a 52 year old, unmarried, Jewish male,"
the lawsuit — filed against Omnicom Group, OMD, Optimum Sports, and former
CFO Mark Amabile — begins. According to the suit, Katz was
discriminated against for being all three — even though he once
dated professional poker
player Beth Shak, at right, on a reality TV show.

"Amabile repeatedly questioned Mr. Katz's status as a non-married
male," the lawsuit says. "Further commenting that Plaintiff 'must
be homosexual if he is not married at his age.'"

Katz "exceeded the revenue and profitability goals set for
his department, and year six was similarly on track to beat all
goals," the suit states. He alleges he was fired because there
wasn't revenue to support his position.

Revenue generated by Optimum was assigned to other units of
Omnicom, and expenses from those units assigned to Optimum, in
violation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the suit alleges.

Katz alleges he was fired for generating revenue for accounts
like State Farm, Lowe's, Bank of America, and Visa as opposed to working on Amabile's pet
projects. The lawsuit says Amabile "concentrated his efforts on
obtaining sponsors for Diamond Nation, a local New Jersey
baseball camp at which defendant AMABILE's son was a student...
Upon information and belief, it was defendant Amabile's intent
to curry favor with the camp and its college coaches in order
to assist in obtaining extra baseball instruction, scholarship
offers for his son, and admission to universities which would
not admit his son without the prospect of baseball
contribution."

Katz didn't have a happy birthday. "Mr. Katz was given a book
'Golf over 50,' a disparaging greeting card calling attention to
Mr. Katz's advancing age, and a candle with the numbers 6 and 1,
signifying 61 years old, and further mocking Mr. Katz's age was
displayed on the birthday cake," the suit states.

On top of allegedly being told that he must be gay if he was
still single, "Plaintiff, on numerous occasions was told that
single people need to make less money than married people and
Plaintiff was witness to occurrences of this practice being
enforced."

Katz says he saw defendants allegedly discriminate against
Jewish vendors, for being "untrustworthy." He doesn't offer any
evidence of that in the lawsuit.